C# Windows Service using a timer

[Rob Shorney]

Hi,

I need to write a C# windows service that will scan a specified directory every n minutes, the number of minutes needs to be passed in via an argument for examples directoryscanner.exe /timer:5 , would tell the program to scan the directory every 5 minutes

Therefore my question how do I code my program to do this. I envisage that some sort of timer is required that will raise a method within my program at the specified interval, also how do I read in the argument on the command line.

Many thanks

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Regards

Rob

[Dan Kelley]

Use the Timer class in System.Threading.Timer. This would be a member variable within your service, which will be created on service startup.

To read the command line, service classes have the following main method signature:

static void Main(string[] args)

where args is a string array representing your command line params.

Cheers
Dan

"Rob Shorney" wrote:

Hi,

I need to write a C# windows service that will scan a specified directory every n minutes, the number of minutes needs to be passed in via an argument for examples directoryscanner.exe /timer:5 , would tell the program to scan the directory every 5 minutes

Therefore my question how do I code my program to do this. I envisage that some sort of timer is required that will raise a method within my program at the specified interval, also how do I read in the argument on the command line.

Many thanks

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Regards

Rob